Harare to receive African credit

African states and institutions are raising hundreds of millions of dollars in trade credits and business loans to shore up Zimbabwe's bankrupt unity government in the absence of a financial rescue package from the west. Regional officials fear that the reluctance of western and multilateral creditors to provide direct financial support could lead to the collapse of the fragile power-sharing deal they brokered between Robert Mugabe, president, and Morgan Tsvangirai, his opposition rival and now prime -minister.